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The wins: Paris named the best student city and a farmer wins his case against Monsanto. The losses: Jean Le Pen sentenced for playing down massacres of WWII. Oh, yes, and Sarkozy is finally (officially) in the election: here is an overview of top news stories in France between February 10 and 17.

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A meeting between government ministers and the presidents of academic institutions will bring about the end to the debate about a 2011 bill that has forced many “high potential” foreign students to leave France.

The bill passed on May 31 of last year has been a thorny issue in an election year. The bill, launched by Interior Minister Claude Guéant, controls more strictly the transition from studies to the working world for foreign residents of France.

Initiatives such as ‘second chance’ schools and job training are being used in an effort to compensate for the reasons which lead 252,000 children to leave French schools each year with no qualifications.